Sourceforge anyone? Also check out www.pricelessware.org, the official site of the alt.comp.freeware usenet group which is a usenet group specifically to discuss this type of software.
Let me know when MS does something right. That will be news.
Must be doing something right when Bill Gates is the richest man in the world and Microsoft can pay a $600,000 EU fine out of the small change in Steve Ballmers pocket.
You don't get over 90% desktop OS penetration and file formats everyone else is forced to be compatible with unless you're doing something right from a business P.O.V which is, after all what they are - a business.
... in Edinburgh, local cinema managers are blaming declining attendances on pirate DVD's being sold at local flea markets.
Nothing to do with Blockbuster Video doing an "all you can eat" DVD postal rental service for a whopping £13.99 a month coupled with being able to buy a DVD player for under £20 then.
The People's Republic of China is run by one of the most corrupt regimes on the planet.
They use torture, rape, and intimidation on a massive, systemic scale.
I take it you've seen for yourself or are you just repeating what the good lord Geedubya told you?
Couple reasons why this is a poor comparision:
1) FireFox is for all intent and purposes a Internet Explorer clone. It is 99% compatible with IE for most users.
ROFLMAO. And IE is a clone of Netscape which was a progression of Mozilla which FF is based on.
Nowhere does it say there isn't a performance hit. It merely says that because of the speed of current hardware, only real power users are likely to notice any difference.
"QuickTransit fully supports accelerated 3-D graphics and about 80 percent computational performance on the main processor."
Wow...after five huge revisions, and countless years of work, MS has an operating system that doesn't crash (often)!
Segfault anyone?
Wow...after countless revisions and a decade of work , programs and drivers are still a nightmare to install on Linux. Dependency this, dependency that, oops wrong GCC version and of course "Oh shit I updated the kernel so I have to recompile my graphics card drivers again."
Can't remember the last time I had to do anymore than a single mouseclick to start installing a program or drivers in Windows.
Sorry, their freedoms have been protected by American soldiers, not just by taxes. A lot of American people have risked their lifes to keep Europe free.
Remind us again who were the main players in the Cold War? THat'd be the USSR and the USA.
All America did was to paint a big red target on Europe. I live on the east coast of the UK within 40 miles of two of YOUR early warning radar stations which are primary targets in the event of a nuclear war...thanks.
Remember WWI, when we were a deciding factor in the Allied victory over the central powers?
Err, no you weren't. The US contingent was a very small one unlike WW2 and came in towards the latter part. Quite rightly, the nations who had lost hundreds of thousands of troops (KSI) in the battle for victory ignored you.
WEll you've not seen anything serious then. How about the crap I tried to get shut of at the weekend which re-installed itself everytime you restarted by running some obscure DLL accessed by an equally obscure registry key?
I'd have to say OpenOffice is up there with Mozilla. When PC magazines start putting OpenOffice in their "Essential software" section EVERY MONTH as PC Format have been doing then you know its "got there". Deepburner and Mozilla are two recent Freeware/OSS apps that have been repeatedly appearing on PCFs cover disk.
How exactly do you secure a Windows system adequately if one crucial component of it, Internet Explorer, has numerous well-known, unpatched and actively exploited bugs?
Easy. Install Windows XP Service Pack 2. Or use one of the plethora of apps to uninstall IE and stick another browser on such as Firefox or Opera.
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Sourceforge anyone? Also check out www.pricelessware.org, the official site of the alt.comp.freeware usenet group which is a usenet group specifically to discuss this type of software.
Must be doing something right when Bill Gates is the richest man in the world and Microsoft can pay a $600,000 EU fine out of the small change in Steve Ballmers pocket.
You don't get over 90% desktop OS penetration and file formats everyone else is forced to be compatible with unless you're doing something right from a business P.O.V which is, after all what they are - a business.
Plenty of legitimate sources.
Want unlimited music? Pay Napster/Wippit a monthly fee.
Want unlimited movies? Pay Blockbuster £13.99 a month for all you can eat DVD rental.
There are enough legitimate sources to make using Suprnova and its ilk pointless if you've legitimate motives.
Sounds very much like British Telecoms Option 1 to me......
Sadly your intelligence doesn't seem to have moved on with it. It doesn't mean music on vinyl, numbnuts; it is a record as in a recording. Geddit?
Nothing to do with Blockbuster Video doing an "all you can eat" DVD postal rental service for a whopping £13.99 a month coupled with being able to buy a DVD player for under £20 then.
No you stupid halfwit - not like Harrods at all. Harrods is one store. Dixons group is the biggest electrical retail chain in the UK.
Why the hell doesn't the US Govt make it compulsory to have a certain IQ before posting?
I take it you've seen for yourself or are you just repeating what the good lord Geedubya told you?
ROFLMAO. And IE is a clone of Netscape which was a progression of Mozilla which FF is based on.
Thankyou for displaying your unbelievable lack of technical competency. The rest of us would've uninstalled SP2.
Apple anyone?
Old news.. I recall it being covered in a PC magazine at least two-three months ago.
"Well its like this Officer. I downloaded a program and used a serial number I got off the net so I could use the software without paying for it...."
"QuickTransit fully supports accelerated 3-D graphics and about 80 percent computational performance on the main processor."
Segfault anyone?
Wow...after countless revisions and a decade of work , programs and drivers are still a nightmare to install on Linux. Dependency this, dependency that, oops wrong GCC version and of course "Oh shit I updated the kernel so I have to recompile my graphics card drivers again."
Can't remember the last time I had to do anymore than a single mouseclick to start installing a program or drivers in Windows.
8. Restarted the XP machine, because my parents said they'd had the machine "acting squirly for a while."
Couldn't have possibly been because there was a problem on the machine in the first place...especially as you mentioned a USB configurations problem.
Remind us again who were the main players in the Cold War? THat'd be the USSR and the USA.
All America did was to paint a big red target on Europe. I live on the east coast of the UK within 40 miles of two of YOUR early warning radar stations which are primary targets in the event of a nuclear war...thanks.
Remember WWI, when we were a deciding factor in the Allied victory over the central powers? Err, no you weren't. The US contingent was a very small one unlike WW2 and came in towards the latter part. Quite rightly, the nations who had lost hundreds of thousands of troops (KSI) in the battle for victory ignored you.
WEll you've not seen anything serious then. How about the crap I tried to get shut of at the weekend which re-installed itself everytime you restarted by running some obscure DLL accessed by an equally obscure registry key?
Err DUMBASS, he spent alot of that time trying to remove the crap WITHOUT re-installing.
Google Toolbar has been available for Firefox for ages.
I'd have to say OpenOffice is up there with Mozilla. When PC magazines start putting OpenOffice in their "Essential software" section EVERY MONTH as PC Format have been doing then you know its "got there". Deepburner and Mozilla are two recent Freeware/OSS apps that have been repeatedly appearing on PCFs cover disk.
Except that X is still running in the background so you can't install the driver.
Oh, and remind me what happens the next time you update the kernel? Oh thats right, you end up at a CLI and have to re-install the drivers.
Easy. Install Windows XP Service Pack 2. Or use one of the plethora of apps to uninstall IE and stick another browser on such as Firefox or Opera.
Indeed they have. My Epson Stylus CX5400 MFD that worked great under SuSE 9 now doesn't work under SuSE 9.1.